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interesting blogs
- jeremy salamon blogs about cooking
share his chef journey: recipes, links, "views" of culinary prof's. - ken albala - a food historian's blog
ken takes us along on his teaching and writing journey - ancient map blog
- once upon a time fairy
bread figures – shaped like people and birds and sybils and fishes and trees. - more painted skulls information
- painted skulls of halstatt
- gherkins and tomatoes
cynthia bertelson’s blog features little known elizabeth romer – who’s book "the tuscan year" – was like a bible to me when i was researching the old ways of agriculture in france and italy and looking for the heart of my soon-to-be-but-at–the-time-had-no-clue-novel i-was-about-to-write. - kate hill
a french culinary retreat in gascony - evan berry’s blog
reading evan makes me feel that, too, at heart - I am a farmer. - amawalker
travel award blog on pilgrimages, lovely - back to the land
an interesting blog on the culinate web site about making your own yogurt and reevaluating the focus of your own life - nothing is wasted on the writer
excellent blog by author friend, crescent dragonwagon - damon fowler, southern food historian's blog
a delightful jaunt, delicious and often times, tongue-in-cheek culinary ramblings on the season, savannah, it's food legends and just plain awesome and very fine indeed, cuisine - madeleine vedel's provencale blog
expert on avignon and nearby locale: wine, honey, cheese, and chocolate to name only a few - loveinmidair
author and friend, kim wright wiley, writes about her craft. her novel, "love in mid air" to be released in 2010. - writer and friend, ann prospero's interviews with triangle chefs
her blog has become a book! "chefs of the triangle: their lives, their recipes, and their restaurants. includes three of my mother sauce recipes. - french teacher terese engebretsen's sabbatical in arles
her continuing culiary education that begun as a sabbatical in arles with chef erick vedel - billie hinton's life at november hill farm
food for thought
- jesse browner, author of an uncertain hour
podcast on the history of cooking - heritage wheat conservancy
- oxford symposium
legendary food history conference - interactive ancient mediterranean project, unc/chapel hill.
a cool link to ancient places - crusty italian bread and sandwich rolls
- another really great bread blog, really tremendous
- ciabatta inspired by eric kayser that uses a liquid levain
- adventures of rosie in paris boulangeries
- compagnon du devoir
- restoration work near st gilles and nimes by compagnon
- speculations on compagnon du devoir and women
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- maman was a scribe in st. trophime, arles
historic eglise in provence - susan groag bell
christine de pizan in her study - many legends. finding ubar, the lost city
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- more about yannig tanguy's bread
- history and lore of the cornelian cherry tree
fascinating story of one of the seven trees in maman's maze of trees in ceres, featured in my novel, city of ladies. - fleurs d’olargue – beautiful b and b at the foot of the espinousse mountains in languedoc france
you must watch the video of joan (anders is her husband but only seen in the background) abrahamssoncame as they talk about their tres especial place on the other side of the devil's bridge and near the aoc chesnut groves. - ville de nerac
click on the plan de ville for southwest french village, nerac, and find "place st nicholas." market is held here everywhere wednesday and saturday. - san francisco baking institute
baking and pastry arts school for professionals and enthusiasts - eric kayser's parisian boulangeries
like lionel vatinet, a "graduate" of the compagnon du devoir french program for maitre boulngers - evan berry, young herbalist
evan's profile on shejumps website. enthralling. - cori roth
soothing and healing facials by an expertly trained aesthetician - herbalists conference in black mountain, nc october 2-4
fabulous conference each fall in the nc mountains - suki roth
highly revered local nc herbalist and medicine woman - chef erick vedel
a new workshop, which includes harvesting fresh herbs in the garrigue, a delicious picnic and followed by distillation and preparation back in the kitchens... - dave artique's elodie farms in rougemont, nc
on c'est si bon's "carolina on my plate" teen-chef tour, cheesemaking and a cooking class - malerba castagne, italian chestnut growers
even if you don’t understand italian you have to watch video of picking and processing chestnuts and peruse recipes (ricettes) for gnocchi, tagiatelle, and papardelle. - delmarvelous farms in delaware
a heartwarming story of bringing chesnut trees back to a viable state on the east coast of the us - barry farm chestnut flour
a great place to find the hard to find, chesnut flour - lionel vatinet
owner, maitre boulanger and teacher of la farm bakery in cary, nc. who studied in france's legendary "compagnon du devoir" guild system - marie claude gracia
mentor and michelin star chef of poudenas' legendary la moulin de poudenas, "a la belle gasconne" - susan groag bell's "the lost tapestries of the city of ladies"
uc davis scholar of christine de pizan's 15th century work, the book of the city of ladies - peter selgin
writer with alimentum culinary journal and beyond - clifford a. wright
a mediterranean feast james beard foundation cookbook of the year 2000 winner - laura b. gschwandtner
contemporary fiction for and by today's woman - johnny grey, london’s luxury kitchen designer
colleague on the the "imagined" obama kitchen project nephew of british food writer, elizabeth david - michael chitwood
well known very local poet and neighbor - international association of culinary professionals
network ops with culinary artists, cookbook authors, foodwriters, stylists, and food history specialists - southern documentary fund / projects / landscapes of the heart: the elizabeth spencer documentary project
colleagues sharon swanson and walter bennett documentary project on elizabeth spencer - gilles barbero bookshop in arles, ancient and rare
on rue saint-julien right around the corner from erick vedel's cooking school - a woman's place: female chefs taking the restaurant world by storm
women chefs are taking over the world. well, almost. :) - lee smith | bios
north carolina author par excellence, lee smith - damon fowler - southern food historian
culinary director of savannah's kitchenware outfitters, http://www.kitchenwareoutfitters.com/ - le café galerie de poudenas - le moulin de poudenas
marie-claude gracia, christian and her son, jean-claude's galerie in poudenas - provence cooks!
madeleine vedel's classic, artisanal, and seasonal culinary tours of provence - gipsy kings
beloved music of arles and the camargue - c'est si bon!
my cooking school in chapel hill. classes and events for kids, teens, and adults. tours to france a specialty. - the search for gold guarding griffins
interesting contemporary thoughts - varmintbites visits with lionel - an artisanal baker
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- carrboro farmer's markets in north carolina
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books
- harold ivan smith: grieving the death of a mother
- bruce lefavour: france on foot
- michael krondl : taste of conquest
- john lanchester: the debt to pleasure
- http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Menagier/Menagier_Contents.html: the goodman of paris cookbook
- larissa lai: salt fish girl
- ken albala: cooking in europe 1250-1650
- ken albala: food in early modern europe
- ken albala : eating right in the renaissance
- barbara ketcham wheaton: savoring the past; the french kitchen and table from 1300 to 1789
- elizabeth spencer: the snare
- eric kayser: http://www.thecitycook.com/cooking/articles/reviews/000079
- holley bishop: robbing the bees
- odile redon, francoise sabban, & silvano serventi: the medieval kitchen
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- michelin: the green guide, languedoc, roussillon, tarn, gorges
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- regina mcbride: the land of women
- marlena de blasi: a thousand days in venice
- dawn clifton tripp: the season of open water
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- gabriel garcia marquez: a hundred years of solitude
- elizabeth spencer: the light in the piazza and other italian tales
- elizabeth graver: the honey thief
- david farmer: oxford dictionary of saints
- voltaire: candide
- frances mayes: a year in the world
- ted andrews: animal wise
- louise riotte: astrological gardening
- robert louis stevenson: travels with a donkey in the cevennes
- peter reinhart: the bread baker's apprentice
- marie claude gracia: le cuisine de passion
- elwyn hartley edwards: the ulitmate horse book
- thomas bulfinch: the golden age of myth and legend
- joanne harris: chocolat
- diane ackerman: the moon by whale light
- diane ackerman: a natural history of the senses
- c.s. lewis: the voyage of the dawn treader
- rhonda byrne: the secret
- robert olmstead: coal black horse
- raymond oliver: gastronomy of france
- a. leconte, editor: plan de paris
- adam gopnik: paris to the moon
- christine de pizan: the book of the city of ladies
- clifford a wright: a mediterranean feast
- ann prospero: chefs of the triangle: their lives, recipes, and restaurants
- benjamin watson: taylor's guide to heirloom vegetables
- ernest hemingway: a moveable feast
- pearl s. buck: the good earth
recipes
- september 4, 2009 acciughe, roman sauce of anchovies, parsley, garlic, and capersso luxurious and perfect to serve over: roasted eggplants or zucchini, cooked orecchiette pasta, grilled chicken, beef or shrimp
- august 19, 2009 riz au gingembre – ginger ricefrom madeleine and erick vedel. in my kitchen i made the dish with the red rice of the camargue and sprinkled coarse camargue sea salt over and tossed beofre serving instead of salting the entirety while cooking.
- august 14, 2009 saffron broth
- august 14 2009 curried dishes from eleone’s timea thick soup of curried apples and turnips melds into autumn
- august 4, 2009 millet cardamom ginger bread with raisinsnutritious, slightly sweet, raisiny bread with crunch from millet. dense enough to create bread figures.
- july 30, 2009 small tarts of white cheese and honeyjust as you might find in renaissance markets
- july 30, 2009 almond and rose dessert frittata with orangethis makes a marvelous breakfast, answering the eternal question of which came first, the chicken or the egg? combining sweet and savory flavors is a trademark of the renaissance and earlier periods, which still works today.
- in 2006 came the 1st levain recipe:1 cup cooked millet (in apple juice) 1 cup chestnut flour ½ cup honey fresh cherries with pits, handful 1 cup whole wheat flour 2 cups all purpose flour 1 teaspoon active dry yeast water to thin to a porridge
- october 2007 - stuffed, braised pork shoulder (inspired by the time life good cook series)imperative for the feast on st gilles day
- september 2007 levain # 21 cup cooked millet (cooked in cherry and pomegranate juice) 1 cup cooked barley 1 cup rye flour ½ cup honey a handful of fresh figs 1 cup millet flour 1 cup whole wheat flour 2 cups all purpose flour 1 package active dry yeast enough water to make an oatmeal-like consistency
- february 2007 spices for roasting rabbitsmix equal amounts of coriander, cumin, anise, and caraway seeds, black pepper, cinnamon, and ginger. coarse sea salt. honey. fish sauce, nuoc mam. crushed red pepper, yes, i think so.
- october 2006 coquelicot – poppy liquora brilliant red, must be made from california poppies in the spring when blooming
- september 2006 necci – chestnut crepesnecci, italian chestnut-flour crepes from pistoia
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